Show missionary experience afi NORWAY laurvig february 1887 editor deseret news among the many interesting accounts of missionary experience chronicled in your valuable paper seldom if ever is seen a piece iram norway one of the 0 old productive r od icove ff fields elds tl many y 0 of f the tae in missionaries isi is i fonaries who first visited i w d th these e rugged ged coasts will doubtless b be e reminded e inde ug of many little events of lu interest tereA which occurred hf their i efforts to obtain a foothold lo among amona the iuda bious by reading the following the he extorts of our first ft rat missionaries e in t these ese parts were rewarded with rieb rich harvests as many good and honest souls were only waiting to hear the word and testimony to receive the truth and believe the divine message but the old fields that once yielded so well are now left as barren tracts and ne new ones entered the ingression generally requires a struggle in one ay bior or another er before a permanent hold bold can be obtained sometimes we meet as it were almost impenetrable barricades ance to I 1 I 1 unchristian I 1 intruders as we are termed ie papers refuse to advertise our meetings doors are closed against us and when that occurs a worthless moscow lies before us bul at other times we ire are met in open aleles of battle it ia well known that we against great odds when number is concerned but when the weapons are taken into consideration in the re ious conflict it is as the poetical lines suggest truth is eternal truth is divine I 1 truth like the sun bun in splendor shall shine truth is the armor truth is we the shield I 1 truth esthe is the weapon error must yield I 1 entered the missionary field about five months ago and was appointed to labor in connection with brother H C peterson Peter soa from logan i m f n the aren area dals bals branch under the supervision of li HJ J president of the norwegian conference also from loran logan cache county the first three months were devoted la in and about laurvig headquarters but as tho the people were getting dilatory in regard to our proclamation we made se several veral attempts to get a foothold in other prees but were unsuccessful until we came to gl a little place called jord a favoriti favorite bathing resort a place where it is as said our had never entered and held a public meeting here we met a gentleman by the name of holm hamen one of uie the most prominent citizens of the place who had bad heard beard our doctrine some 85 years ago and had bad beu been favorably impressed both with the doctrine and its advocates making our oar visit known he offered to rent us a room and aided in various ways in ia procuring necessaries for wilding holding meetings cast B thy bread upon the waters for thou stall shall findig find it after many days we wean announced our meetings through their papers and the result was a laage and attentive audience at curf mr 1 first ird aad second meetings the effect of our test was plainly anparan upon many us AS they tame ame forward at the close of the meetings and gave us a hearty grip of the hand and said we had bad fold to q the truth bible doctrine etc dut by this time the old shepherd had bad thoroughly aroused to a full benje sense ot of his bis duty aud and the following sabbath he be made known to his bis flock i in n solemn yet sound words that the blackest of all sects bad had entered his hitherto bi undivided flock and that one bad actually opened his bis doors to tio rec receive iv us and I 1 in order to better denom strate his bis depreciation precia tiou of the uri unjustifiable justifiable course he lighted the finist erial tapers and called down in his priestly authority da lunation upon Alor cormons mormons mons and all who opened their kneir loots boots to receive them and appointed two meetings during the week that would be devoted exclusively to the mormon question and aou would give a full account of tile the origin of their false albe doctrine another priest was summoned to assist in the desperate conflict ana anal ot of course share in the laurels in short they were to hurl their bolts of vituperation pe ration against two peaceable and unpretentious missionaries who had th tire the e plau plan of life and salvation to offer in place of their man cluade system and carried alone that awful weapon to them the bible to defend then themselves selves to say the most in a few words they so well succeeded that a mob met us to our last ibe meeting eting broke the window lights and rushed upon us denouncing us ua as the blackest sect that trod upon earth and continued their until they had pumped out the innermost of clean christian hearts buta but a Gam gamaliel altel was in the audience who bravely stood up in our defense his scathing rebuke to the sanctioned by a host which divided the number for and against us and they continued their battle among themselves until an early hour next morning this meeting signalized signalizes the whole population to atte attend tid our nest they came nearly doing as probably not more wora than I 1 one tenta tenia of taisie present gained admission the police force with a deputized corps were present to prevent any desperate assault as the priest had bad sanctioned any course that might be taken by the people to rid the town of our presence order was maintained until the latter part of our mec meeting ting when a clergy student with a sinister r smile began such unwarrantable lies that the lo 10 lowest west of his own clique became disgusted we felt by tile the fel r ol 01 or of ahe ac spirit to him a lew words of rebuke which so paralyzed him that he got down from his elevated position amid the ithe hisses and derision of the audience and crawled out as humiliated as a aa I 1 whipped cur many have offered their assistance in case of an outbreak and believing the devil is not struggling without a purpose w we intend by tb help of god to hold out with the tenacity worthy a saint and fish out if possible the elect may god speed the work is the prayer of your fellow laborer ABR ABB |